Melville Cooper

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1896-10-14 (77 years old)

Deathday

1973-03-31

Place of Birth

Birmingham, England, UK

Melville Cooper

Biography

George Melville Cooper (15 October 1896 – 13 March 1973), best known as Melville Cooper, was a British stage, film and television actor. Among his roles are the cowardly Sheriff of Nottingham in The Adventures of Robin Hood, starring Errol Flynn, and Mr. Collins in Pride and Prejudice, with Greer Garson. His stage debut came in Stratford-Upon-Avon at the age of eighteen. In 1934, he moved to the United States, where he was usually cast as ineffectual snobs or crooks. As his film career wound down in the 1950s, he turned to television and back to the stage. He was an early panelist on the American game show I've Got A Secret. Cooper died in ...

Acting

1941

The Lady Eve

as Gerald

1938

The Adventures of Robin Hood

as High Sheriff of Nottingham

1954

It Should Happen to You

as Guest Panelist

1950

Father of the Bride

as Mr. Tringle

1931

Black Coffee

as Insp. Japp

1942

1949

Love Happy

as Lefty Throckmorton

1950

The Underworld Story

as Major Redford

1939

Blind Alley

as George Curtis

1949

The Red Danube

as Private David Moonlight

1946

Heartbeat

as Roland Latour

1955

Moonfleet

as Felix Ratsey

1956

Diane

as 1st Court Physician

1957

1956

Bundle of Joy

as Adams, the Butler

1937

Tovarich

as Charles Dupont

1941

The Flame of New Orleans

as Brother-in-Law

1937

Thin Ice

as Krantz

1940

Murder Over New York

as Herbert 'Snuffy' Fenton

1938

The Dawn Patrol

as Sgt. Watkins

1938

Four's a Crowd

as Bingham, Dillingwell's Butler

1947

13 Rue Madeleine

as Pappy Simpson

1941

1935

Rendezvous

as Doorman (uncredited)

1940

1955

The King's Thief

as Henry Wynch

1936

1950

The Petty Girl

as Beardsley (Petty's butler, aka Uncle Ben)

1938

Gold Diggers in Paris

as Pierre aka Fernand LeBrec

1937

The Great Garrick

as M. W. Picard

1943

Holy Matrimony

as Dr. Caswell

1938

1938

1946

The Imperfect Lady

as Lord Montglyn

1939

1942

The Affairs of Martha

as Dr. Clarence Sommerfield

1938

Hard to Get

as John Case

1938

Women Are Like That

as Mainwaring

1938

1950

Let's Dance

as Charles Wagstaffe

1949

1954

The General's Boots

as Mr. Burnham

1942

1943

1943

Hit Parade of 1943

as Bradley Cole

1941

Scotland Yard

as Dr. Crownfield

1940

Rebecca

as Coroner

1939

1940

Pride and Prejudice

as Mr. Collins

1935

1940

Escape to Glory

as Ship's Mate Penney

1931

The Calendar

as Mr. Wayne

1932

1943

My Kingdom for a Cook

as Angus Sheffield

1948

Enchantment

as Jeweler

1939

Two Bright Boys

as Hilary Harrington

1933

Leave It to Me

as Honorable Freddie

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